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Hi Dark, Oh, I do agree that the classic Dracula type storyline for games is getting quite old. I know what you mean by far too many games are set in a remote village ruled over by an evil vampire, and that definitely wasn't what I had in mind for a vampire game. I was thinking of something more modern set in an urban environment like Los Vegas, Los Angelus, New York, or Boston the way shows like Angel or Buffy the Vampire Slayer are. Of course, that era too has been covered extensively through shows like X-Files, Demons, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer I still think it is better than the 19th century vampire from New Orleans or the count who rules over a remote European village. With the modern urban setting I think most of the game players can easily associate with the newly undead as he or she adapts to living in a modern world who no longer believes in vampires, but are far more dangerous than a bunch of peasants. Think of it this way. According to legend vampires can only be killed by having a wooden stake drove through the heart or be destroyed by being in direct sunlight. What few if any stories fail to explore is what would happen if a vampire were to be shot with a submachine gun or got hit with a grenade. It might not kill it, but you would think the vampire wouldn't walk away from such a fight undamaged either. Many legends say fire can injure and kill a vampire so a flamethrower, which wouldn't have existed in Dracula's world, would be a heck of a weapon against a vampire. The modern world would be far more dangerous for a new vampire than you might think. Let's take the simple mission from the Storm8 games about feeding on some local gang members. A vampire might have to rely on stealth and so forth to take down the gang members as they could be armed with modern weapons like Oozy submachine guns or sawed off shotguns. They may not stop or kill a vampire outright but a new vampire might lose a lot of blood or sustain heavy damage in the process. We will assume here for the moment these vampire fledglings aren't as strong or powerful as the ones in Ann Rice's books who become supernatural super beings from the moment they arise from the grave. Perhaps we might assume a new vampire could be killed through some conventional means, because he/she is weak and it is only the old vampires that have to be staked through the heart or burned by sunlight. In other words I don't necessarily intend to follow vampire lore exactly to the letter if I wrote a game using vampires. I think they are for the most part open to the author's interpretation, and many people have envisioned them reinterpreted them, and molded them in their own way. A good author perhaps keeps only what he or she thinks is necessary to make them vampire or whatever but is otherwise free to add to what is there. Perhaps the best case example I can give for this is the monsters in Patricia Briggs books. In Patricia Briggs fantasy books they are set in the modern day, and most of the werewolves, vampires, fairies, etc lead normal lives hiding as normal people. While silver is necessary to outright kill a werewolf its possible to kill one through completely conventional means too. Its just that they are stronger, faster, and have a much higher constitution than the average human so silver is a quicker more surefire way of slaying a werewolf than cutting its head off with say a chainsaw. Perhaps the most likable character in Patricia Briggs world is Stephan the vampire who drives around in a 1970's Chevy van painted to look like the Scooby Do Mystery Machine, loves kids cartoons, and even knows American sign language. He manages to feed by having a house full of servants that he feeds off of, but doesn't kill them. He merely takes a bite from one here, a little drink from one there, and doesn't suck until they are dead the way the evil vampires do. Basically, one need not be a stereotypical blood sucking vampire. There are ways to work it in a game that someone could be a kind of heroic vampire, one that only feeds to survive, by killing evil people, or by having servants that they can use for basic feeding. Someone else might want to play the roll of a evil vampire hunting and stalking people regardless of if they are good or bad, and of course suck them dry if they want to kill everyone in the game just because they can. There is lots of room to play with the traditional vampire character here. Cheers! On 3/20/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi Tom. while I see your point on originality being less of a concern due to access, I'm afraid I do not necessarily agree, not when we're talking about text adventures and rpgs, as opposed to action type games like super castlevania, since experiencing even a very generic spooky castle dracula with all the sterriotypical opening cofins, creaky stairs, shambling ghoul butlers etc would be quite a different ethos to having a fully fleshed out game with background and character,
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Hi tom. i totally agree on the story angle there tom, however in the case of vampires and warewolves it counts even more. The field has been so heavily worked over by fiction writers, (especially after twilight and other such popular series), that to be really interesting such a story has to have appealing characters and a different take on things. One example of this was the recent series being human from the Bbc, about a vampire, a warewolf and a ghost who shared a house together. What made that however was the fact that the characters were so well rounded. Vampires were basically represented as like basically a totally out of control gang of druggies who even their leaders found hard to control, indeed part of the point of the second series was that just after the main character killed off the head vamp of the area, he suddenly realized that all the arrangements they had with the police etc totally fell out. the vampire character himself was also not entirely a good guy either, since there were points he tried to give up feeding, points he tried to sell the idea to other vampires and other points that he totally lost it or was made to lose it by those around him, (since being human was as m uch about the people as it was about the paranormal). My point however is that that sort of level of character is just not possible in such a short game which just has a click hear to do mission type of setup, indeed even for sighted players the cutscenes only provide appealing photos, not any sort of story or choices. Hmmm, I'm now thinking of trying choiceofgames gamebook, choice of the vampire to see what that turns out like (though i believe that is somewhat influenced by anne rice given that you start off in 19th century neworleans). Same goes for fantasy rpgs though and to a greater or lesser extent pretty much any genre of game, if the backstory and exploration is missing all your left with is stat management and economics, which might be interesting on it's own to some people, but not to myself, at least not when it is just a question of doing the same thing over again rather than actually having some sort of reactive based system of actions to follow. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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On the matter of replayable, I agree that the system sryth has with grindable areas with many monsters but unique missions works. Core exiles is much the same given that there are specific! missions you can do for npcs, but also general cargo, courier or mining missions which are just like trips on the company pay roll, sort of the way a taxi driver might work for some specific private higher individuals sometimes, but can always go back to a big taxi company to get generall jobs. Another system I quite like is that in puppet nightmares, whereby the game has several very long episodes that that a good while toc omplete, but are repeatable oncedone, indeed this is quite a common system in games nowadays, the action/rpg game darksouls that my brother is a huge fan of has this sort of thing, where by you can finish the game completely after many hours of playing but restart with your levels and experience intact on a tougher difficulty (also setting yourself up for online play with other people). To be honest though I don't think it's really the case that storm8 thought that a specific prince would get captured by goblins again and again, rather they just set a mission with specific reward chances and a button and needed a cool fantasy name and photo to go with it. you might as well just call it mission 5 for all the practical good it actually does in the game, which is again probably why the storm8 games are so much mods of eachother just with differently named stuff and some mildly different numbers in their crunching. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Well, not necessarily. You say due to Twilight and other such popular series that to be interesting a game about vampires and werewolves has to have appealing characters and a different take on things. While I can agree with that to a certain point I also know a lot of that stuff just isn't available to a blind gamer. If we were sighted we could buy a copy of Castlevania or Wolfenstine, and play it to our hearts content. When you are totally blind like me that's not so much of an option. If someone creates a blind friendly text adventure or roll playing game based on Castlevania or Wolfenstine that might be old hat to those who have had the opportunity to play those games, but is a completely new experience for the blind guy who is just experiencing it for the first time. Bottom line, while it is true that vampires and werewolves have been worked over by mainstream game developers and authors to the point it is difficult to come up with something new and original that still is beside the point that we are talking about a group of people who have to a large extent been deprived of access to those materials. I know, for example, you have played Super Castlevania. What if you never played it before and some V.I. game developer produced an accessible audio version. Would it be a new experience? Well, of course, it would be. Therefore I'm less concerned at this point of originality than making games available to the V.I. community that are a new experience for the majority of people who have been deprived of access to the originals. These Storm8 games have given me a bit of inspiration to write a text based game about vampires and at this point I really don't care if I borrow ideas from the Vampire Chronicals, Twilight, or any other popular series because I really haven't played many games about vampires and do not belong to a guild or similar RPG group. So for me it is all kind of new. Cheers! On 3/20/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. i totally agree on the story angle there tom, however in the case of vampires and warewolves it counts even more. The field has been so heavily worked over by fiction writers, (especially after twilight and other such popular series), that to be really interesting such a story has to have appealing characters and a different take on things. One example of this was the recent series being human from the Bbc, about a vampire, a warewolf and a ghost who shared a house together. What made that however was the fact that the characters were so well rounded. Vampires were basically represented as like basically a totally out of control gang of druggies who even their leaders found hard to control, indeed part of the point of the second series was that just after the main character killed off the head vamp of the area, he suddenly realized that all the arrangements they had with the police etc totally fell out. the vampire character himself was also not entirely a good guy either, since there were points he tried to give up feeding, points he tried to sell the idea to other vampires and other points that he totally lost it or was made to lose it by those around him, (since being human was as m uch about the people as it was about the paranormal). My point however is that that sort of level of character is just not possible in such a short game which just has a click hear to do mission type of setup, indeed even for sighted players the cutscenes only provide appealing photos, not any sort of story or choices. Hmmm, I'm now thinking of trying choiceofgames gamebook, choice of the vampire to see what that turns out like (though i believe that is somewhat influenced by anne rice given that you start off in 19th century neworleans). Same goes for fantasy rpgs though and to a greater or lesser extent pretty much any genre of game, if the backstory and exploration is missing all your left with is stat management and economics, which might be interesting on it's own to some people, but not to myself, at least not when it is just a question of doing the same thing over again rather than actually having some sort of reactive based system of actions to follow. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Tom. while I see your point on originality being less of a concern due to access, I'm afraid I do not necessarily agree, not when we're talking about text adventures and rpgs, as opposed to action type games like super castlevania, since experiencing even a very generic spooky castle dracula with all the sterriotypical opening cofins, creaky stairs, shambling ghoul butlers etc would be quite a different ethos to having a fully fleshed out game with background and character, considder for example the difference betwene playing the esp pinball classic haunted house table with all it's sounds, evil organ music etc, and just reading a very generic description of a creapy old ruined house. I'll also add that for me, super castlevania only really became interesting in it's environments later on in the game, when i reached places like the swirling room in the clockwork mantion or draculas treasury, the first few levels in the generic castle area and the standard forest I didn't find half as interesting in terms of their background and setting. Getting back to text games though, to take one example, The choiceofgames choice of the vampire has clearly been enspired by anne rice first book, since your vampire starts off on a plantation in late 19th century neworleans. now, if I were to write a vampire text adventure game with the same historical setting, it would be far less interesting since we have seen what vampires are like there and have even played as one. Likewise there are so many interactive fiction games, eamon rpgs, gamebooks etc that are either directly set in castle dracula in transilvania or in a very similar system, isolated community of fearful peasants ruled over by vampire lord living in his giant medieval castle, that it would not be a new setting to explore, indeed if you look through the list of Eamon adventures there are so many with this form it's quite unbelieveable. of course, good writing or game design can always make a generic setting worth trying anyway, but even so, I'd myself much prefer a game with a slightly different ethos. To take one example, one thing i've not yet seen is a vampire game set on an estate in a time of termoil. Suppose for example, I wrote a game set in 18th century England at the time of the battle of colludan, in which England was at war with Scotland regarding King James the sixth being king of both countries. You could have the vampire as in fact a leader of a Scotish clan which was comparatively undiscovered, but which has come betwene the encampments of both an English and Scotish regiment. The vampire of course, wants both sides to get lost and leave him alone and to not be discovered, since both the English and Scotish church would agree on his extermination, so therefore starts reanimating corpses on both sides to fight against each other, in an effort to wipe out both regiments so that no news gets back to either London or edinborough. So, in the game you could either play an english or scotish soldier, (the english being better armed but the scotish having better starting stats). Part of the game would be fighting the enemy army, then the vampire's plans would be discovered, and the second part of the game would involve the two forces combining to fight off the undead, before storming the manner house of the vampire himself. The game would therefore be set mainly in rugged country sides, battling with 18th century weaponry against both humans, and the undead and whatever the vamp could throw. I'm not actually suggesting you take on this idea in itselff, 9since obviously it depends upon historical knolidge), but merely pointing out that by just tweaking the time and plot of even a standard vampire story, you can wind up with something with a lot more dimention to play. I will freely admit however, that as a general theme I'm a little sick of vampires at the moment, everyone going nuts over what is essentially a human mosquito, especially with all the romantic rubbish (I wonder how romantic a leach is). Then there is the constant winging and wining about vampires having to kill people to survive! for goodness sake grow up! :D. this isn't to say i won't play anything with a vampire in it or give something with a vamp a try, it's just that as a general concetp I'm getting pretty sick of them in their standard form, and to interest me as an idea in a story, interactive or otherwise, there needs to be a little more, or at the least, some darn good writing! Of course as I said, this is totally different from the question of an audio game, since there you have the action, atmosphere and sound, not to mention exploration to considder over and above the general theme, heck I'm not crazy about modern war stories, but I do very much enjoy games like Zero site, gma tank commander and lone wolf purely as games and experiences. So, feel free to come up with an
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
They are very good games, I have not played them for a while but will have to start again. Is it best to start erring income straight from level one and if so what's the best way to start doing it. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hello Well 2 tell u the truth the only way I can play games that r on a console is with the help of my wife and kids. If it wasn't 4 them I would just stick 2 my computer. I try 2 still play games with my family and they try 2 do the same with me. Like playing Alter aeon and interactive fiction. -Original Message- From: shaun everiss [mailto:sm.ever...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information hi james. I know there is a way but I have never owned or handled a console exclusively, the only thing I have handled myself was parts of aibs odyssey with a team. of players offline. the other was playing the lego starwars games with my cousin. However I really think highly of those that can remember the layouts of just about everything, and can play online and offline games like mk9 down to the last punch I myself am not a natural. sure give me a blindy game with a targeting beep but all punches sound almost the same, I have never really been much of a research kind of guy though that may change. I have never been more than an average gamer playing mostly for story and if I get a serious game like smuglers I have never played to win sertainly I have never at all completed a game, I get lost in it sure but eventually things change and I move to something else. This may change in the colder months especially in the periods after the various opperations needed to be done on things where if I am able speaking will not be an option so gaming definately. At 05:24 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I just wanted 2 say thank you 4 calling me a crazy gamer. I love playing the wii and other games like that. my favorite games are bowling oh and I can kick some but in beer pong. The bowling is on the wii. I just like 2 have fun and I like 2 try 2 play the games that I played b4 I lost my eye sight. Some I can play and some I can not. But I won't know till I try. James the crazy gamer -Original Message- From: shaun everiss [mailto:sm.ever...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers
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Hi L o l Well 1st I'll have some1 snap there fingers by the cup. After a 2 or 3 times I prity much have the hang of where the cups r. they even have it on the wii now they just call it cup pong 4 the family. Plus it seems the more I drink the better I get l o l. -Original Message- From: Ken The PionEar [mailto:kenwdow...@me.com] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information How in the world do you play beer pong? I beat that game once, and it took me almost two hours. You know they even have that on the iPhone now, and you even tilt the device toward yourself to get that refreshing drink of beer after a good shot. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, I recommend shooting up to level 7 and then start earning income. The problem is that it's way too easy to race through the first 20 levels, but if you don't get a good income base going, you will suffer hard at later levels. So, you can decide, be patient and bored now at lower levels, or take the quick path like Anakin Skywalker did and then turn to the dark side, smile. -- Raul A. Gallegos I didn't slap you, I simply high fived your face. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/19/2013 1:15 AM, Ian McNamara wrote: They are very good games, I have not played them for a while but will have to start again. Is it best to start erring income straight from level one and if so what's the best way to start doing it. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Raul. that is actually what I've done, I'm level 7 now and am just buying more slaves. it actually suits me since I'm very busy with a production this week and don't have massive amounts of time to go and play games, though it would be nice to have some more clan members, (another reason I'd rather like a storm8 id), indeed I might go and introduce myself on the storm8 forum to see if anyone would like to add me to their clan. fights wise, i've put two thirds of my skill points into defense, and that does seem to have paid off since I've only been attacked and defeated once, but have been attacked and won about five times, indeed it seems defense is more important than attack or at least that is the way it is looking thus far. Btw, I've written a description for vampires live on audiogames.net and have added links to your podcasts there should anyone want to download them. i'll also stick them on the entry for zombies live when i get around to writing a description for that. All the best, dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi I don't have an iphone yet so I was just wondering if they have a game like this for windows or linnex?I have xp windows 7 and 8 and I'm running jaws 14. If that helps any. Thank you James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi james. Nope, the storm8 games are only playable on Ios and android systems, however there are lots of games of a similar sort for windows, go and check the games to play online page on www.whitestic.co.ukk for a list. In many ways the storm8 games remind me of things like dragon tavern and majesty heroes of ardania, though the use of the Ios notification system and their inclusion of some sound effects is rather unique. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: James Bartlett jab8...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information Hi I don't have an iphone yet so I was just wondering if they have a game like this for windows or linnex?I have xp windows 7 and 8 and I'm running jaws 14. If that helps any. Thank you James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Ian, I don't believe you can begin earning income until you reach rank 7 or so. As a result you need to gain flesh, blood, whatever through missions etc until you can begin earning income. As far as weather or not the Storm8 games are good I think that is a matter of personal preference. Like Dark mentioned there isn't enough text to suit me. If I select a mission to carry out I expect a background story and a description of the battle at minimum. In the Storm8 games all we get is a little scene, some sounds, and its over. No background story, no description of the battle, nothing to draw me into the mission/quest. I find missions about as boring as watching paint dry. I think if Storm8 would spend more time on writing text descriptions for stuff like a text adventure it would go a long way to improving the games. Cheers! On 3/19/13, Ian McNamara ianmcnamar...@gmail.com wrote: They are very good games, I have not played them for a while but will have to start again. Is it best to start erring income straight from level one and if so what's the best way to start doing it. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, james. If you mean Windows or Linux, then the answer is no. You can only run these games from an iOS device. I believe there are facebook versions, but those are not accessible. There are hacks of course of people who have made a pc version, but again, I don't know if they are accessible or not. -- Raul A. Gallegos My mother + my father - condom = the most amazing human being alive. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/19/2013 10:32 AM, James Bartlett wrote: Hi I don't have an iphone yet so I was just wondering if they have a game like this for windows or linnex?I have xp windows 7 and 8 and I'm running jaws 14. If that helps any. Thank you James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi James, No, the Storm8 games are currently only for iOS devices like the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and various Android devices. Cheers! On 3/19/13, James Bartlett jab8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I don't have an iphone yet so I was just wondering if they have a game like this for windows or linnex?I have xp windows 7 and 8 and I'm running jaws 14. If that helps any. Thank you James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi tom. that is what I am finding with the game, however I do think part of the problem here is a purely access one. Each mission does come with a picture, which i'm guessing for people who can see them are appealing enough to make ganing ranks in new missions and completing missions worthwile. Obviously for vi players this is not the case and I do confess the simple press button success sort of fights and missions the games have are for me a major turn off since as you said, i'd like some propper text, especially about something as potentially interesting as my vampire stalking a human or subduing local gangsters. I have contacted storm8 about the inaccessibility of the settings tab, and if they get back to me on that front I might suggest that they include textual descriptions for the missions, though I do not know if they will go for that option, since for at least some sighted gamers text equals dull, thus a text heavy game is not an interesting one in their thinking, though of course others such as makers of gamebooks etc have a different outlook, it'll just be a question of which direction storm8 thinks since they might not actually considdered adding story text to the missions at all, though i don't hold out too much hope on this one. In general at the moment my thinking over the storm8 games is that they are okay, and I will try them, but I doubt they will hold my interest for too long simply because of my liking for exploration and atmosphere even over and above stat heavy play. beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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For anyone playing these, do you know how to access the settings in any game other than Kingdoms, if it's possible at all? I looked up how to set a storm8 ID and it says to click the tiny cog icon, but I don't see a link anywhere that takes me to a settings tab. There's one up near my character name on the homepage, but voiceover won't focus on it long enough for it to be clicked on. I got my ID set up in Kingdoms, if anyone wants to add me it's bladestorm360. I'm hoping I can get into the settings on the other games and link them up as well so I don't have to spread my codes around everywhere, would make life a lot simpler. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, That may be. I know a lot of sighted gamers, and even some V.I. gamers, view text based games as boring or less appealing than having some graphical representation of the events such as a quick cutscene that conveys the salient points. However, like you I enjoy games with a good solid back story, is full of exploration, and am not so much a fan of stat heavy games. I think the Storm8 games lack the back story and exploration, and is geared more for people who like dealing with various stats and who like figuring out how to earn the most income while maintaining the best weapons etc. So they are appealing in principle, but fall short of what I would consider personally addictive. If I were considering writing a game like Vampires I would probably write a back story for the game, and have it full of various missions or quests to embark on with textual descriptions of everything more like a Gamebook. Imagine the following story.. The city lies silent as you stand in the shadows near the abandoned warehouse. Twilight has fallen over the city, and the only light remaining is that cast by the various street lamps placed at regular intervals along the avenue. At this hour nobody is out accept the occasional junky trying to score a hit, or the prostitutes selling their bodies to any John willing to pay their fees. More often this neighborhood is home to some of the city's worst gang bangers and hoods. Street punks with a gun and a rap sheet a mile long. However, none of them are as nearly as fearsome a hunter as you. You are one of the newly undead. A creature of the night.. A creature that feeds off the blood of the living, and are filled with an insatiable hunger to kill and feed. As nobody much cares about the city's prostitutes, junkies, and gang bangers it makes this part of town the perfect place to begin hunting for prey. That's only a couple of paragraphs of text, but that really sets up the mood for a quest where a vampire, or a zombie I suppose, can hunt for human prey. It is far more interesting than a few sounds of people screaming and getting attacked by our undead character. That text really sets the mood, and I could expand that quest to hunt a few gangsters and what not in that section of town. The more I think about the idea the more I like the idea of writing such a game. I've been thinking of writing RPGs for a while now, but I haven't considered how fun it would be to write a text based roll playing game where I am a vampire, zombie, or werewolf instead of being the hero hunting them. I guess that comes from the fact most stories, and most games for that matter, are always taken from the hero's point of view rather than the villains. So in that light writing some vampire or zombie text game would rock. Cheers! On 3/19/13, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. that is what I am finding with the game, however I do think part of the problem here is a purely access one. Each mission does come with a picture, which i'm guessing for people who can see them are appealing enough to make ganing ranks in new missions and completing missions worthwile. Obviously for vi players this is not the case and I do confess the simple press button success sort of fights and missions the games have are for me a major turn off since as you said, i'd like some propper text, especially about something as potentially interesting as my vampire stalking a human or subduing local gangsters. I have contacted storm8 about the inaccessibility of the settings tab, and if they get back to me on that front I might suggest that they include textual descriptions for the missions, though I do not know if they will go for that option, since for at least some sighted gamers text equals dull, thus a text heavy game is not an interesting one in their thinking, though of course others such as makers of gamebooks etc have a different outlook, it'll just be a question of which direction storm8 thinks since they might not actually considdered adding story text to the missions at all, though i don't hold out too much hope on this one. In general at the moment my thinking over the storm8 games is that they are okay, and I will try them, but I doubt they will hold my interest for too long simply because of my liking for exploration and atmosphere even over and above stat heavy play. beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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That was actually pretty well written. Nice job. Personally I actually don't mind just the little bit of backstory the games give you in the tutorials, but I would definitely prefer the missions to have more text to them, and the story you just came up with would be much cooler. It would also be cool if the missions were completable in some way rather than repeatable, or at least some mixture of the two. Some of the missions don't make sense, like the quest in Kingdoms where you have to Save the Prince from the Goblins. And you can do that quest as many times as you want. That is one unfortunate prince, or your character is one terrible hero. haha. I don't mind stat heavy game sos much because I have a bit of an overactive imagination, so I can conceptualize a lot of things in terms of my characters, hence why I still play Dragon Tavern for it's unique classes. But they tend not to last for too long as in any game, I prefer an overarching storyline that can be completed and a game that has an ending, or multiple endings. -- From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 09:21 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information Hi Dark, That may be. I know a lot of sighted gamers, and even some V.I. gamers, view text based games as boring or less appealing than having some graphical representation of the events such as a quick cutscene that conveys the salient points. However, like you I enjoy games with a good solid back story, is full of exploration, and am not so much a fan of stat heavy games. I think the Storm8 games lack the back story and exploration, and is geared more for people who like dealing with various stats and who like figuring out how to earn the most income while maintaining the best weapons etc. So they are appealing in principle, but fall short of what I would consider personally addictive. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Perhaps showing up means something else where you're from, but in England speak it's quite negative. Personally, I'd say making gigantic sweeping statements and including words like retarded does a lot more to show you up than someone who enjoys tackling as much as they can of a console game, or plays through a translator if that's what's needed to get them through a good title of their favourite genre. I'm not narked because I fall into either one of these categories nowadays, I am however a smidgen irritated that I can't recall the last time a message arrived from this guy that didn't contain something which would be mildly to moderately offensive to someone somewhere on language content alone. I realise that there are many fine lines to dance along when it comes to freedom of speech, political correctness etc, but seriously, are there list guidelines in place for a reason or not? Sorry to derail your thread even further Dark, but really... Scott On 3/18/13, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, thanks for giving the podcasts a listen. Now, as to whether these are your style of games or not, when it comes down to it, like someone else said, most games tend to be clones of each other. They do have a different visual appeal and different sounds though. Also, there are subtle differences in how you battle someone if you compare games like World War and Kingdoms. For example, in World War, you the player is one person, but can have up to 6 units for each battle. If you have a group of 50 in your army, then you would need 50X6 units, which equals 300 units to fight effectively. The units can be tanks, planes, troops, ETC. As long as they are 300. Now, you will want to have the ones with the best attack points possible to get the best possible chance of winning. Kingdoms, on the other hand, you will use the best weapon, best armor, and best spell when you attack. So, again if you have 50 people in your group, then it's 50 from each of those categories. That means if you have 100 weapons, you will only use 50 of them, but you will use 50 of the best armor and 50 of the best spells. So, even though the games all have similar qualities, they are each different within themselves. The one thing they all have in common is getting good income. This is where the challenge comes into play for me. It takes time and patience, but if you build up a good income in your game, then you can get pretty much anything you want in your level. In my iMobsters game for example, if I am attacked and I lose, I might lose 2 million dollars to the enemy. However I'm making over 800 million per hour. So, it's chump change what I lose compared to what I gain within the hour. Now, if my income was very bad, and I got attacked, then I might lose all that income I've been trying to save up for in order to buy some cool new gear. I believe that Pets Live is the only one whose income isn't done in this same way. However Pets didn't attract me, so I don't play it. The games I play most are World War, iMobsters, Vampires, Zombies, Kingdoms, Racing, Rock Battle, and Ninjas. I would say that Rock Battle is my least favorite while World War, iMobsters and Kingdoms are amongst my favorites. Oh, also when you attack other players, you are attacking real people who are also playing the game same as you. The cool thing about Vampires and Zombies is that those games are interactive, meaning that when you attack, it could be players from either game. I could go on and on about these great games, but much of that is contained in my podcasts. I haven't done a third one yet though. -- Raul A. Gallegos No one sits in my spot. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/17/2013 10:13 PM, dark wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Hi, I'm lost as to what your rant-sounding message really means in terms of answering the question about Storm8 games. -- Raul A. Gallegos Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/17/2013 10:31 PM, shaun everiss wrote: What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Raul. this is what I thought about differences in games. pvp doesn't appeal to me much, I prefer exploring and questing and generally don't wrate attacking or being attacked by others, but I thought i'd give the storm8 games a try anyway, both for personal satisfaction and because they might be fun after all. However as I said in my recent message, i can't find them on either the Uk or us ap store, lots of tools, calculators and such but no games. i tried the Uk ap store, then went to their site and tried the us one, but still absolutely nothing. any idea how to find the games? this is quite annoying. i searched for pets live, vampires live, I mobster, World war and kingdoms live but didn't find anything at all. also, could you please post the links to your podcasts again. i'm writing up entries on audiogames.net for vampires live and zombies live, and it'd be nice to post links to your pdocasts in those entries so that people reading about the games can have the chance of a good audio overview as well. all the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Thanks for letting us know Tom. On 3/18/13, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Scott, The situation is being handled off list. Please, be patient. I know you and others are upset by Shaun's inflammatory comments, but rest assured I have already issued a few off list warnings to straighten up and fly right or be placed on moderated status. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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hi james. I know there is a way but I have never owned or handled a console exclusively, the only thing I have handled myself was parts of aibs odyssey with a team. of players offline. the other was playing the lego starwars games with my cousin. However I really think highly of those that can remember the layouts of just about everything, and can play online and offline games like mk9 down to the last punch I myself am not a natural. sure give me a blindy game with a targeting beep but all punches sound almost the same, I have never really been much of a research kind of guy though that may change. I have never been more than an average gamer playing mostly for story and if I get a serious game like smuglers I have never played to win sertainly I have never at all completed a game, I get lost in it sure but eventually things change and I move to something else. This may change in the colder months especially in the periods after the various opperations needed to be done on things where if I am able speaking will not be an option so gaming definately. At 05:24 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I just wanted 2 say thank you 4 calling me a crazy gamer. I love playing the wii and other games like that. my favorite games are bowling oh and I can kick some but in beer pong. The bowling is on the wii. I just like 2 have fun and I like 2 try 2 play the games that I played b4 I lost my eye sight. Some I can play and some I can not. But I won't know till I try. James the crazy gamer -Original Message- From: shaun everiss [mailto:sm.ever...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have
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sorry about that I kind of get carried away maybe its jallousy of the upper gaing levels sometimes I go on if I go on to much tell me and I'll stop this is a bad habbit and occationally I rant not often though. At 07:14 AM 3/19/2013, you wrote: Hello Scott, The situation is being handled off list. Please, be patient. I know you and others are upset by Shaun's inflammatory comments, but rest assured I have already issued a few off list warnings to straighten up and fly right or be placed on moderated status. On 3/18/13, Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps showing up means something else where you're from, but in England speak it's quite negative. Personally, I'd say making gigantic sweeping statements and including words like retarded does a lot more to show you up than someone who enjoys tackling as much as they can of a console game, or plays through a translator if that's what's needed to get them through a good title of their favourite genre. I'm not narked because I fall into either one of these categories nowadays, I am however a smidgen irritated that I can't recall the last time a message arrived from this guy that didn't contain something which would be mildly to moderately offensive to someone somewhere on language content alone. I realise that there are many fine lines to dance along when it comes to freedom of speech, political correctness etc, but seriously, are there list guidelines in place for a reason or not? Sorry to derail your thread even further Dark, but really... Scott --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Well it seems the games were only down temporarily. Since it is first on my list of stuff to add to the game, I've started vampires live, though will likely play some of the other storm8 games later. i'm rather disappointed at the lack of text, the game seems very economics based as Raul said, but also a bit number heavy for my liking though i may try pets live next. My character is Darkula, if anyone wants to add me, my clan code is hanutr, (I've invited raul with his Storm8 id, but I'm not sure of other people's). Indeed, where do one get these storm8 id thingies? I looked at the settings in the profile but there doesn't seem to be anything there regarding that. I don't know how long the game will hold my interest, but I might try things for a while just to see what achievements I can unlock. Anyway, if people want to add me feel free. all the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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How in the world do you play beer pong? I beat that game once, and it took me almost two hours. You know they even have that on the iPhone now, and you even tilt the device toward yourself to get that refreshing drink of beer after a good shot. - Original Message - From: James Bartlett jab8...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information Well I just wanted 2 say thank you 4 calling me a crazy gamer. I love playing the wii and other games like that. my favorite games are bowling oh and I can kick some but in beer pong. The bowling is on the wii. I just like 2 have fun and I like 2 try 2 play the games that I played b4 I lost my eye sight. Some I can play and some I can not. But I won't know till I try. James the crazy gamer -Original Message- From: shaun everiss [mailto:sm.ever...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, that's not a problem for the links. Since my web site is currently down due to a loss of data, it's just the stock Wordpress blog site now, but below I have given the links to the podcasts. I hope it's not a problem that they are direct links without an actual web page. Once I get things going better, things will be prettier. On a side note, what style of template or database is used for audiogames.net? Since this is going OT, we can discuss this off list if needed. I'm debating whether to stick with Wordpress, or go with something else like Droople. I'm not looking at starting a forum, but just something which can host files to download whether they are podcasts or utilities, but eventually I want to get a podcast going like one which can be searchable from iTunes and various podcatchers. I have some reading to do I know. smile. Thanks. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh dear. You're 15, You should be picking flowers not baby names. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/18/2013 6:08 PM, dark wrote: Hi Raul. this is what I thought about differences in games. pvp doesn't appeal to me much, I prefer exploring and questing and generally don't wrate attacking or being attacked by others, but I thought i'd give the storm8 games a try anyway, both for personal satisfaction and because they might be fun after all. However as I said in my recent message, i can't find them on either the Uk or us ap store, lots of tools, calculators and such but no games. i tried the Uk ap store, then went to their site and tried the us one, but still absolutely nothing. any idea how to find the games? this is quite annoying. i searched for pets live, vampires live, I mobster, World war and kingdoms live but didn't find anything at all. also, could you please post the links to your podcasts again. i'm writing up entries on audiogames.net for vampires live and zombies live, and it'd be nice to post links to your pdocasts in those entries so that people reading about the games can have the chance of a good audio overview as well. all the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Hi Raul. As far as I know as regards audiogames.net, it was a template specifically written by richard and sander, rather than being wordpress, blogger or similar. While I believe it uses the rss feeds from the forum, how it then generates the news posts on the front page is I assume more a matter of custom php coding which richard and sander did when they built the site. Such things are way beyond me I'm afraid and any questions are better addressed to them directly, (I just write on the site I don't know how it works :D). As regards the direct links, they're fine, since I can just link straight to them in the entries for Vampires and zombies, however would you mind please giving me the dropbox links again, because I accidently deleted the mail you sent to the list with them, nor can I actually remember the subject line so can't search the audeasy archive. Btw, on a storm 8 games question, where the heck do I find the options for the games? my Iphone just woke me with a notification that my slaves had produced blood, which is a little irritating, but I can't find any settings for the game, either in the vampire game itself or in notifications. I also would like to get a storm8 id, since I do plan on at least trying the other games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Hello again Dark and anyone else interested. I forgot to include the podcast links in my previous post. They used to be on Dropbox, but I've since moved them over to my server space. They are below. Storm8 part 1: http://asmodean.net/podcasts/Storm8DemoPart1Intro.mp3 Storm8 Part 2: http://asmodean.net/podcasts/Storm8DemoPart2Money.mp3 -- Raul A. Gallegos Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/18/2013 9:25 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi Dark, that's not a problem for the links. Since my web site is currently down due to a loss of data, it's just the stock Wordpress blog site now, but below I have given the links to the podcasts. I hope it's not a problem that they are direct links without an actual web page. Once I get things going better, things will be prettier. On a side note, what style of template or database is used for audiogames.net? Since this is going OT, we can discuss this off list if needed. I'm debating whether to stick with Wordpress, or go with something else like Droople. I'm not looking at starting a forum, but just something which can host files to download whether they are podcasts or utilities, but eventually I want to get a podcast going like one which can be searchable from iTunes and various podcatchers. I have some reading to do I know. smile. Thanks. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh dear. You're 15, You should be picking flowers not baby names. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 3/18/2013 6:08 PM, dark wrote: Hi Raul. this is what I thought about differences in games. pvp doesn't appeal to me much, I prefer exploring and questing and generally don't wrate attacking or being attacked by others, but I thought i'd give the storm8 games a try anyway, both for personal satisfaction and because they might be fun after all. However as I said in my recent message, i can't find them on either the Uk or us ap store, lots of tools, calculators and such but no games. i tried the Uk ap store, then went to their site and tried the us one, but still absolutely nothing. any idea how to find the games? this is quite annoying. i searched for pets live, vampires live, I mobster, World war and kingdoms live but didn't find anything at all. also, could you please post the links to your podcasts again. i'm writing up entries on audiogames.net for vampires live and zombies live, and it'd be nice to post links to your pdocasts in those entries so that people reading about the games can have the chance of a good audio overview as well. all the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Storm8 games information
hello. As anyone will know who has been around me, I've been a major player of brouser mmorpgs for about 10 years now. i've heard about these games from storm8, but thus far the only one I've read extensively about is I mobsters on the audiogames.net forum. The hole mob mean streets crime genre isn't my thing, but I've checked applevis and several other games sound quite to my taste, especially kingdoms live and Pets live, (I might check out vampire or zombi as well). Plus of course, the games do need db pages if they are accessible, whether I choose personally to play them or not, indeed this will give me an excuse to at least look in on all of them. so firstly, what are all the storm8 games and what are they roughly about? Secondly, about podcasts and other materials? i have the demo podcast in two parts by Raul gillegos which I'm downloading now, but has Raul done anymore (I checked his site but couldn't find anything). thirdly, how extensive is the player attacking, do you tend to lose lots of money from other player attacks? as someone who prefers solo progress to being constantly interfered with by other players and isn't a massive fan of grouping or attacking, how much interference from other attacks is there? More info would be appreciated (though iam going to go and listen to Raul's demo now). All the best, dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
The ones I played were fairly boring, they're all basically clones of each other with different missions based on the settings. You click the same button over and over to do a mission to build up experience, money and such, you buy items and units to unlock new missions, there's no text describing the mission or what you actually did, it just says your mission was successful, and there's a pretty large PVP element. I can't remember if there's penalties for being attacked but I do know it's a large part of the game. They also tend to be fairly donation heavy. Basically, think of it as Dragon Tavern without the unique classes and with a couple more options aside from exploring. -- From: dark d...@xgam.org Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 07:57 PM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information hello. As anyone will know who has been around me, I've been a major player of brouser mmorpgs for about 10 years now. i've heard about these games from storm8, but thus far the only one I've read extensively about is I mobsters on the audiogames.net forum. The hole mob mean streets crime genre isn't my thing, but I've checked applevis and several other games sound quite to my taste, especially kingdoms live and Pets live, (I might check out vampire or zombi as well). Plus of course, the games do need db pages if they are accessible, whether I choose personally to play them or not, indeed this will give me an excuse to at least look in on all of them. so firstly, what are all the storm8 games and what are they roughly about? Secondly, about podcasts and other materials? i have the demo podcast in two parts by Raul gillegos which I'm downloading now, but has Raul done anymore (I checked his site but couldn't find anything). thirdly, how extensive is the player attacking, do you tend to lose lots of money from other player attacks? as someone who prefers solo progress to being constantly interfered with by other players and isn't a massive fan of grouping or attacking, how much interference from other attacks is there? More info would be appreciated (though iam going to go and listen to Raul's demo now). All the best, dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Sean, I'm a little confused what you mean by class of gamers there and what this actually has to do with storm8 games, all I meant as that I'd like to hear from a fan of the games since people obviously enjoy them, indeed having now heard Raul's demo I'm interested to know how the pets live game differs from the others. As to your assessment, it strikes me as a little unfair. Some people just prefer simple games, others lack certain abilities. Myself, as I just said in my reply to phil's message though I'm a fairly serious game player I do not have good spacial logic or comprehention, meaning grid based games with multiple elements where only limited views of the grid are found in audio such as solitare or suodku (let alone chess or even draughts), are not that easy for me. As regards mainstream games, well I wouldn't personally regard it as levels of ggamers or anything like that, just people's patience and expectations. It is possible to learn anything if you take the time with it and invest the energy. That is really the point in the db deffinition about access however, how much energy is reasonable to invest in a game. Myself, having played game svisually, while I am! used to expending more effort in playing a graphical game, I do like to at least have a vague idea what is going on, seeing the difference betwene my character and their surroundings etc, thus for me at least, playing mainstream games by sound is just an exercize in frustration, but obviously for others with more patience, or without my initial expectations that is not the case, heck I've met people with my! level of site who do not expend the effort playing even the graphically simpler more retro games that I do since they do not want the effort of having to guess what object is what, learn menues and other screens etc. Remember games are a hobby, and therefore a matter of choice, if a person hasn't heard of accessible games and only! been introudced to board or card games, that is what they will expect until they are shown differently, the rest is up to them. Beware the Grue! d ark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information
Well I just wanted 2 say thank you 4 calling me a crazy gamer. I love playing the wii and other games like that. my favorite games are bowling oh and I can kick some but in beer pong. The bowling is on the wii. I just like 2 have fun and I like 2 try 2 play the games that I played b4 I lost my eye sight. Some I can play and some I can not. But I won't know till I try. James the crazy gamer -Original Message- From: shaun everiss [mailto:sm.ever...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Storm8 games information What interests me are the class of gamers. The lowest of the low are not on here as such but I know of a few. some of them blind others not. in the scheme of things they are the poor retarded bunch that have no idea and or just getting started. I have a few, one of them was not blind and had potential but never got further than last crusade and decent into madness and not for long. To others that never heard of audiogames and only did the simple board games and then not that much. Then the standard gamer, most of us are in this catogry. To the advanced strat gamer, I am not really one of those I sertainly couldn't plan for ages what I will do, I play games for the story and to muck round but I honestly don't care to solve without cheating I don't want to use my brain for anything serious unless its real easy or I can grind away. Then there is the crazy gamer class the hard core type. They play games the rest of us me included wouldn't dream of playing. Games that are inaccessable and there for crappy and useless to most of us not that we whoud know what they all mean. this includes some iphone games, consoles yeah consoles in general. I just don't know how they actually do it, and play reasonably ok and also online no speech. These same people play in multipul languages and really show the blind community up, they are the super blind. Not sure how many exactly are round but probably more than you think. At 04:13 PM 3/18/2013, you wrote: Well I did wonder if there was at the least a little more text to some of the games, though I'm listening to raul's demos and while the pvp element doesn't seem to heavy I'm less happy with the lack of description since missions shouldn't just be a button and an auto success. I might try a couple of the games later, but I'm not sure whether they're as much my thing, indeed that's again why I would appreciate information From Raul or someone else who is obviously a fan of the games. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
